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A New Winter Project

A New Winter Project

by Debra Claffey | Oct 30, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates

Here’s a link if you would like to sign up. CSA (Community Supported Art!) Rounds One and Two have been sold out! But there will be additional Shares if enough people fill out the form on their website for information. While you sign up I’ll get to work to...
It’s Official!

It’s Official!

by Debra Claffey | Feb 21, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates

I am pleased and honored to announce that my teaching connection with R & F Paints in Kingston, New York, has been made official. They have included me in the Tier Artist roster, along with Lorraine Glessner in Pennsylvania, Shelley...
The Gallery in Readfield

The Gallery in Readfield

by Debra Claffey | Feb 1, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions

My friend and colleague, Camille Davidson, has invited me to exhibit at the Gallery in Readfield. The Gallery in Readfield is located in central Maine. Camille organizes visual art exhibitions, artist talks, and musical performances in the space. Of course, for the...
Workshop a the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Educational Center

Workshop a the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Educational Center

by Debra Claffey | Jun 15, 2019 | Events, Updates, Workshops

SO much fun teaching today at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Educational Center. What a great group of artists!!! We introduced using cold wax medium with oils on Arches Oil...
Elemental: Contemporary Encaustic—The Catalog is Available!

Elemental: Contemporary Encaustic—The Catalog is Available!

by DCadmin | Mar 23, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibition catalog, Exhibitions, Updates

← The Reception at Gateway Gallery I’m very proud to make available a catalog of the exhibition at the Springfield Museums that my colleagues and I have put together. The show features work by Pat Gerkin, Donna Hamil Talman, Charyl Weissbach and me, at the...
The Reception at Gateway Gallery

The Reception at Gateway Gallery

by DCadmin | Mar 15, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions

Many thanks to Annette Cohen and the staff at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth,  for the great reception at Gateway Gallery last evening ((March 14, 2019). Thank you all who came out to see the big work. It was an absolute delight to have enough...
From the Flat Files

From the Flat Files

by Debra Claffey | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts

Looking at work and thinking up ideas for a collaboration with poet A. Khaki for WCA/NH Text and Textiles project...
Small #encausticmonotype 9″x12″

Small #encausticmonotype 9″x12″

by Debra Claffey | Oct 8, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing

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Celebrating Talented Friends!

Celebrating Talented Friends!

by Debra Claffey | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions

Last evening Twiggs Gallery hosted a reception for Balancing Acts, a small show of encaustic work that I was delighted to curate. Summer in the country, evening breezes beginning to cool what was a beautiful, blue-sky day. Artist-owner Adele Sanborn’s creation,...
From The Curator: This Left  and That Right, with Pamala Crabb

From The Curator: This Left and That Right, with Pamala Crabb

by Debra Claffey | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews, Thoughts

One of the delightful parts of curating this exhibition was discovering how many artists contemplate this idea of balance in our work and in our lives. I had some questions for Pamala Crabb, an artist living in Maine, who works with wax and encaustic in paintings,...
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